A Mirror

In the first part of Harry Potter, there is a mirror that allows people to see the deepest desires in the heart. In that mirror, Harry saw his parents, who died when he was one year old, standing next to him.

Can the things in that mirror be chosen? On the surface, the answer seems to be no. Although many people have resisted, it is undeniable that part of our own destiny is indeed set before birth. Although destiny is not a choice, people can still choose what kind of person they become.

Harry could not choose his destiny to be an orphan at one year old, and sadly, although we could not choose our own destiny, we were constantly exerting a possibly decisive influence on the fate of others. A prediction made by the female divination teacher, if Voldemort did not hear, Harry would not lose his parents.

We may influence the fate of other people, especially our descendants and those who like us. This is not a good thing, nor can it bring any compensation for our own failure to control our own destiny. Because this kind of influence rarely brings good results. What makes people entangled is that except for the weird and unknowable part of fate, the other parts seem to be caused by other people. This is a fact that people must be soberly aware of.

But it is not to promote nihilistic determinism.

Destiny is something that cannot be changed in our lives, or that has already happened. Who our parents determine our genes, the subjects we may be good at, our figure, our skin color, our appearance, where we were born, and the people we will meet early in life.

Harry and Voldemort seemed to have countless things in common, anyone who had read them knew. They seem to be inextricably linked in their lives because of the returned curse. Everyone can say that Snakeman has a huge determination to prove himself and become stronger. They are orphans without parents, and they can even see each other's brains occasionally.

But as Dumbledore emphasized many times. The Sorting Hat once wanted to assign Harry to Slytherin, but Harry chose Griffindor himself.

The child in the prophecy might have been Neville, but Voldemort himself chose Harry.

This is the intersection of life. Your choices are actually limited, and there is actually only one way you can choose. Your possibilities keep disappearing as the time of life decreases.  

  Even the two people who had the same miserable childhood chose two completely different paths.

Don't give up your life at the intersection where you are no longer young. At this time, the time when I can take more and more control of my life has just begun. 

  What do you see in the mirror? What we see is what we want, the person we most want to be in our hearts. It is a dream, one of the few things that can absolutely be in our hands. Even if a life tortured is better than death, we can also decide whether the self seen in the mirror is warm or chilling.